Majestic hoop or grand Dream Hoop tutorials

I used to love my grand hoop on my Pfaff 2170 . I made a number of quilts with it and used it to create fantastic applique designs. When the majestic hoop came along I could finally make one full quilt block in a single hooping and I am ashamed to admit my grand hoop has sulked on the shelf ever since. The Designer Diamond does not appear to have the same issues of alignment that the grand hoop did.. The Diamond aligns the embroidery module automatically each time you turn your machine on.

I have two tutorials for this fantastic hoop. The more basic of the two uses the 4D Embroidery Extra Software and the second uses the 5D Embroidery Extra Software and features some components that are not availalble to the 4D Software. There is a slight overlap in the two tutorials as I have repeated the section on setting up and using the hoop for htose that have not purchased both tutorials.

Using the Grand Dream or Majestic Hoop Tutorial for 3D, 4D and 5D Embroidery Extra

This tutorial on the Grand Dream or Majestic Hoop. uses the 4D software but would be applicable to the 5D software as well. It consists of an ebook as well as a series of 10 downloadable videos on my screencast site and the total running time is almost two hours.

Topics covered include how to:

Place designs and minimise color changes.

Edit designs to make smaller designs.

Resize feather quilting designs into the majestic hoop.

Identify which designs are suitable for deconstructing.

Work with cascading windows to make designing faster.

Using Encore to make borders.

Alter designs so that they split more easily.

Manually split designs that the software will not split properly.

Use Design Aligner to split problem designs.

Make motif lines, arcs and waves in quilt blocks with the machine fonts.

Various techniques for hooping different designs.

How to make a block fit into the hoop

I decided to revived my unfinished Latte quilt blocks from many years ago. With a few simple strategies I found I could get many of the blocks to fit into the majestic hoop. It is great to see the designs line up so beautifully. It took a lot of effort to get this result with the smaller hoops in the past.

This tutorial should have you searching your stash for UFO's to finish off. The Majestic or Grand Dream hoop can really speed up your progress by allowing you to do the quilting and motif stitching in the hoop a the same time as the designs.

There are no designs included in this tutorial as the intent is to make you utilize the designs that you already have to create many more elements for you to use. The tutorial shows designs that I have purchased from "Sweet Heirloom", "Marcia Pollard" and the Latte quilt. If you already have my tutorial on the Majestic Hoop for the 5D Softwarethere is a small amount of overlap in the written section but the videos are all new. Where the content may be similar I have used different designs to illustrate them.DVD Alternative: If you have a slow internet connection and would prefer to receive the videos on a DVD pleas select the DVD option below.